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Zephaniah 3:14-20

A Song of Joy

14 Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel!Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem!
15 The Lord has taken away the judgements against you, he has turned away your enemies.The king of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst; you shall fear disaster no more.
16 On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands grow weak.
17 The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory;he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you* in his love;he will exult over you with loud singing
18 as on a day of festival.*I will remove disaster from you,* so that you will not bear reproach for it.
19 I will deal with all your oppressors at that time.And I will save the lame and gather the outcast,and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.
20 At that time I will bring you home, at the time when I gather you;for I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth,when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says the Lord.

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Acts 3:12-19

12When Peter saw it, he addressed the people, You Israelites,* why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk?
13The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our ancestors has glorified his servant* Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release him.
14But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you,
15and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.
16And by faith in his name, his name itself has made this man strong, whom you see and know; and the faith that is through Jesus* has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you.

17 And now, friends,* I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
18In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah* would suffer.
19Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out,

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Psalm 4

Confident Plea for Deliverance from Enemies

To the leader: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.1 Answer me when I call, O God of my right! You gave me room when I was in distress. Be gracious to me, and hear my prayer.

2 How long, you people, shall my honour suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies?Selah3 But know that the Lord has set apart the faithful for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him.

4 When you are disturbed,* do not sin; ponder it on your beds, and be silent.Selah5 Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the Lord.

6 There are many who say, O that we might see some good! Let the light of your face shine on us, O Lord!
7 You have put gladness in my heart more than when their grain and wine abound.

8 I will both lie down and sleep in peace; for you alone, O Lord, make me lie down in safety.

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1 John 3:1-7

31See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
2Beloved, we are Gods children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he* is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.
3And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

4 Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
5You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
6No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him.
7Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

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Luke 24:36b-48

Jesus Appears to His Disciples

36 While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, Peace be with you.*37They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost.
38He said to them, Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?
39Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.
40And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.*41While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, Have you anything here to eat?
42They gave him a piece of broiled fish,
43and he took it and ate in their presence.

44 Then he said to them, These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with youthat everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.
45Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,
46and he said to them, Thus it is written, that the Messiah* is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day,
47and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
48You are witnesses* of these things.